Nor could governments anyway be confident of doing much to create jobs.

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And we couldn't be prouder of him and we're confident he is going to be doing an outstanding job there.

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If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

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Dr Ardavan is confident that, if the machine can be coaxed into doing this, it will radiate in exactly the way he predicts, providing a tuneable and compact source of high-frequency microwaves in effect, a tabletop pulsar, without the neutron star.

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Metta and Haass were both confident that simple, non-humanoid robots would be possible to work alongside humans doing simple tasks, such as holding heavy objects in factories.

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The WLGA chief executive was confident that local authorities would be "very capable" of making bylaws as the risks in doing so were not high.

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